Left-handed Golfers To Hold '86 National Tourney Here

September 8, 1985|By Bob Fowler of the Sentinel Staff

The area's 1986 golf schedule will include another top-flight amateur tournament.

The National Association of Left-Handed Golfers will hold its 51st championship at Walt Disney World's complex June 17-20. The event will be contested on Disney's Magnolia, Palm and Lake Buena Vista courses.

Barney Curls of Lakeland, president of the association, said the field will consist of 288 left-handed players. ''They'll come from throughout the United States and Canada,'' he said. ''We also get some entries from Australia and New Zealand.''

Stan Sill of Spartanburg, S.C., is the 1985 national left-handed champion. He will defend his title at Disney. Among the leading left-handed players from Central Florida expected to compete are Marlon Buckner, greens superintendent at Orange Tree in Orlando, and Murray Miller of DeLand. Buckner was in the top 10 in this year's national championship, and Miller was among the top 20 in the World Left-Handed Tournament last month in British Columbia.

Felix Bertucci of Tampa is the current state left-handed champion. He will defend that title Oct. 19-20 at Lone Palm in Lakeland.

Like father, like son. In December, Col. Red Arns, who lives at Bay Hill, used a 5-iron on the seventh hole to make his first hole-in-one in 45 years. He was accompanied on that round by his 13-year-old son, T.R. And nine months later the youth used a driver to ace the 190-yard second hole at Bay Hill -- also the first of his career.

Dick Bretschmeir, Orlando, used a 5-wood to ace the 159-yard 14th at Winter Pines, Winter Park.

A tournament to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association sponosred by the Southland Corporation will be held Monday at Errol Estate in Apopka with shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

-- A tournament to benefit Florida Hospital/Apopka will be held Friday at Zellwood Station. The team scramble event will have a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. Entry fee is $25. Call 886-3303 to enter.

Qualifying in the first Central Florida Ryder Pitch-Putt Drive tournament for players 5-17 will be held next Sunday at Dubsdread in Orlando and Tuscawilla in Winter Springs. Deadline to enter is Wednesday. Finals of the event, which will benefit the Orlandoland Junior Golf Association, will be Oct. 13 at Walt Disney World.

The first Rollins College Scholarship Invitational tournament will be held Sept. 16 at Heathrow in Lake Mary. The event, sponsored by American Pioneer Savings Bank of Winter Park, is to benefit the Roy E. Crummer Graduate School of Business, and 120 players are expected to participate.

The Florida Publinx championship will be held Sept. 20-22 at Dubsdread in Orlando. Entry forms can be mailed to P.O. Box 8804, Orlando, 32856.

-- The Home Builders Association of Mid Florida will have a celebrity tournament Sept. 20 at Heathrow, featuring several PGA Tour stars. Among those who have committed to participate are Payne Stewart, Calvin Peete, Larry Rinker and Larry Ziegler. Charlie McClendon, head of the American Football Coaches Association, and Bay Hill professional Dick Tiddy also are playing. The event will benefit CHARLEE, an organization of family care homes for abused and neglected children. For more information, call 629-9242.